Deborah Jones Merritt (Ohio State) has recently posted her article “Pedagogy, Progress, and Portfolios” to SSRN (link here).  She presents thorough and intriguing visions of “Professional Learning Portfolios.”  One piece of her article describes the implications for those of us who teach ADR, although frankly, I think the ideas have at least as much relevance to every other aspect of a law school’s curriculum.

I wish that I could see a “sample” of such a portfolio, because the concepts are absolutely fascinating in theory, and to see what it might look like in practice would make it all the easier to imagine what it might look like for a school — or even possibly an individual instructor or set of instructors — to take steps toward implementing Professor Merritt’s suggestions.

Michael Moffitt